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The article offers an evaluation of the fundaments of Floris's theory of disegno by considering drawings that do not fit comfortably into any of the categories (studies after Ancient or contemporary Italian art, modelli, designs for prints, and designs for the decorative arts), defined by the artist's biographer, Carl Van de Velde. Following his return from Italy, Floris broadened the scope of Lambert...
Eugeniusz Kazimirowski painted the oil-painting Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy in 1934 under the patronage of Father Michał Sopocko, who served as a confessor to Saint Maria Faustyna of the Most Blessed Sacrament and championed her mystical experiences, especially the crucial one from February 22, 1931 - a direct basis of the painting. Its devotional effectiveness - the devotion to the Divine Mercy...
The article deals with Albrecht Duerer's relations to Eastern Europe - direct and indirect dealings of the Nuremberg based artist with artists and patrons from Poland and Prussia to Hungary and Romania. The essay is intended merely as an introduction to the topic and to some of the issues the subject raises, for example Nuremberg's international business ties, direct links to Eastern European patrons...
The National Gallery in Prague collection of 15th and 16th century German painting includes, besides works from most major art centres, also works from the Lower Rhineland region (whose major centre was Cologne), Bartholomaeus Bruyn's 'Ascension of Christ' being one of the core works of this group. The article examines formal aspects of the work and its connection to the contemporary scene and tries...
The article addresses the reception of the work of Aby M. Warburg in social and cultural sciences in relation to two thematic scopes. The first wave of the reception of Warburg - originating already in his time and then intensifying mainly during the 1970s - was oriented at his works on the conception of a symbol, respectively on the iconological tradition. The second wave of the reception, which...
The article deals with a sumptuous mausoleum in the Italian all'antica style - the Sigismund Chapel (1515-1533) - initiated by King Sigismund I (1467- 1548), who was educated within the circle of Cracow humanists (e.g. Filippo Buonaccorsi, called Callimacho Esperiente). It offers information on the process of raising and decorating the edifice adjacent to the Cracow's Cathedral, description of external...
More than a half-century lasting creation of Anton/Antal Jaszusch (1882-1965) grew out of postimpressionist premises. The artist created his personally understood painter's expression, comprised of art deco segments, fed mainly by the art of two-dimensional decor and reminiscences of plain-air and impressionistic painting. In the years 1920-1924 - as a result of the horrors of World War I - he created...
The article offers a revised view of some aspects of the earlier history of art history in the United States that have previously been ignored, downplayed, or represented inaccurately. It presents the story as it unrolled before 1933 as providing precedents and accordingly a context for the reception of Germanic scholarship, among other things for the origins of current interests in a broader, globalize...
The article examines a specific role of medieval architectural language at the 1900 Paris World Exposition. Two ephemeral buildings evocated the presence of the history in a seemingly similar way: partial citations from different epochs - with a specific stress put on the Middle Ages - were mixed together to make stunning ensembles. The similarity of approach and overall impression hid cardinal differences...
The article takes a closer look at the problematic relationship between Art History and connoisseurship - the latter in today's general opinion summarizing all negative and old-fashioned aspects of the discipline - in a broad historical overview (from G. Vasari to B. Berenson). The author concludes with defending a complete and organic Art History focused on the object, which allows to conjugate the...
The article concerns Veit Stoss' works associated with Italy. His possible relationships with Italians in Krakow - Stoss came to Krakow in 1477 - are discussed here and suggestions are offered for the broader context within such contacts might have taken place. Like the figure of St Roche in SS. Annunziata and the Crucifix in Ognissanti, the sepulchral plaque of the Italian humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi,...
The Decretum Gratiani is the first and the longest text of the Corpus Iuris Canonici, the body of Catholic Church Law. The Bratislava Gratian belongs to a small group of early illuminated copies where the initial H that opens the text is formed by the bodies of Pope and Emperor standing side-by-side and extending hands, and, together with the Arras Gratian, probably represents a native Bolognese example...
The article focuses on an exceptionally large project of the Austrian-Hungarian Bank's headquarters in Vienna by a prominent Viennese architect Leopold Bauer (1872-1938). It follows development of this aspiring program from 1911 to 1914 (due to the World War I only a paper design) from the winning competition project, through preliminary projects bearing witness to inspirations in the Neo-Renaissance...
Polish painting of the 19th century was formed in Central European context; however, it had its own specialties. On one hand, there were mutual tendencies in development of landscape- and portrait-painting, on the other, because of complicated political conditions, the ideologically spotted historical painting made it possible to touch in its own way problems of nationality. The article exemplifies...
The material analyzes the Neo-Renaissance building of the theatre and ridotto in Spišská Nová Ves/Zipser Neudorf/Iglo (after 1902) by architect Koloman Gerster (1850-1927). It describes results of the competition from 1899, consequent planning and construction process and connections with other Gerster's works and work of his contemporaries. Alongside similar buildings in Bratislava and Košice, the...
The article presents new facts and details on the life and work of architect Dušan Jurkovič (1868-1947), and exploiting recent research of archive documents submits novel findings on crystallization of his artistic profile. Its dominant point of interest is to elucidate Jurkovič's relations to Vienna that - due to the education gained at the Staatsgewerbeschule (1884-1899) as well as due to the diverse...
The article offers information on the exhibition The 200 Years of the Fine Arts Academy Munich and the resulting extensive publication (589 pp.), both organized and published in 2008. It concentrates on the role of the academy in pursuing artistic progress in 19th century painting with a specific stress put on contacts with the environment in Eastern Europe (e.g. painters Mihaly Munkacsy, Laszlo Mednaszky).
The article analyzes the building of the former County House in Levoča (1807-1826) by architect Anton Povolný. The Classicist style quality present in its facade - extraordinary regarding the date of origin, exceeding the surrounding context and bearing witness to the local orientation to Germany - conceals the traditional Late Baroque interior layout bearing witness to the official state power of...
The article offers information on the exhibition 'Biedermeier. Art and Culture in the Czech countries 1814 - 1848' and the resulting extensive publication (527 pp.), both organized and published in 2008. It presents basic insight according to the logical structure of the publication: Predispositions and Roots, Applied Arts and Life-style, Biedermeier in Fine Arts and Tradition and Modernity and the...
In the 1840s English Gothic Revival movement arrived in historical Hungary with country houses in Rusovce (Oroszvar) by Franz Beer and Velke Uherce (Nagyugroc) by Alois Pichl, both of Austrian origin, in today's Slovakia and in Vep in today's Hungary as its early examples. The article examines their and some of their followers' (e.g. Parchovany/Parno, Ivanka pri Dunaji/Pozsonyivanka) historical and...
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